Thanks for the information. In my case it must have failed silently before and not used the intended cache configuration. So better now.

Solved it by setting hibernate.javax.cache.uri , just to bad "classpath:" URI is not supported in hibernate. Would prefer "classpath:ehcache.xml" to "file://$

/git/cia/service.data.impl/src/main/resources/ehcache.xml" which is not portable.